Why Sesshoumaru never killed Inuyasha
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Why Shesshoumaru never killed Inuyasha
So, here’s an opinion post about why Seshhoumaru never actually killed Inuyasha.
Everyone is very excited by the sequel of Inuyasha and probably is reading or watching the anime again. I’m one of those people, though I had started reading it before the big announce, so I consider it a good omen.
In this adventure starting at the beggining, we see that Sesshoumaru is presumlby always trying to kill Inuyasha, but always “failing” for this or for that. Always trying to get Tetsusaiga but neer actually killing him off.
Then we can say that Rin Join him and well, slowly started to have feelings. But there is something interesting about one of the moments within this brothers relationship. This is when Inuyasha is running wild because of his Youkai blood.
At this point, Seshhoumaru got really interested in why Inuyasha was transforming and had the same Youkai smell as his Chichiue and him. And I started wondering why Rumiko would do this. Obviously, for the sake of the story, Sesshoumaru couldn’t kill off Inuyasha just like that, but… Why the sudden change of Seshoumaru? Why so interested in Inuyasha’s transformtion? He even goes to the extent to ask an old acquaintance of his dad for this. Trying to figure out the connection between the Tetsuaiga and Inuyasha’s transformation.
Here’s when I will make my point of why he didn’t kill and I think never would have killed Inuyasha. Of course, these are just presumptions and things I thought of after reading Inuyasha all over again.
When Sesshoumaru got the chance to kill Inuyasha in his wild state, he didn’t. He just stopped him. Why? Because of Inuyasha’s blood: he has their father’s blood and for Sesshoumaru that’s extremely important.
Inuyasha was killing people in that wild state, controlled by his Youkai blood meaning: he was killing people with the blood inhenereted by his father. Seshoumaru admired his father and knew that he was better than killing off people or youkais in the way Inuyasha was doing.
More or less it was a disgrace for his father what Inuyasha was doing in that state. Sesshoumaru didn’t want that horrible connection being made between Inuyasha’s blood and Inu no Taisho. So, being the one fully understanding of the situation, went and stopped him.
As Miroku points out, why didn’t just killing him off? He said it was because it’s useless to kill someone who doesn’t even know who he is. Then Kagome’s thoughts are “It’s as if, he only came to stop Inuyasha running wild”.
I think is because of the shared blood they have, representing his father, the great Inu no Taisho. Sesshoumaru’s true wish is to be able to defeat his father, task he couldn’t done. He admires him still even in his death. Even when he doesn’t understand his actions (why giving Tetsusaiga to Inuyasha and Tenseiga to him). Remember that at this point they don’t know anything about the abilites of the swords, discovered many moons later.
So, that’s why I think Seshoumaru never actually killed Inuyasha. He doesn’t care hurting him, but Inuyasha, at the end of the day, is his father’s son. So, I think even if they never would have “get along” or the journey they went together with Naraku would have never happened, I think Sesshoumaru would never actually kill him.
Beacuse even if he didn’t understood his father actions, he respected him. And Inuyasha is a testament of his father’s actions and personality. Even if Sesshoumaru couldn’t understand him then, again, he respected his Chichiue, so killing Inuyasha would be a disgrace to him.
I imagine them looking me like this after that long statement XD